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Nobody loves
me,
Dead angels scream out my name,
and the world recoils.
I'd hope to have some faith in
God.
I'd pray to have a reason.
I'd sin with guilty conscience,
and confess my black transgression.
I go to church on Sunday,
and genufluct with grace,
and wear the pious innocence
I lack upon my face.
Delicious
Creme Sauce
(Béchamel Sauce)
What you'll need:
1/2 gallon of milk
1 stick of unsalted butter
1/4 lb. of flour
1 Large white onion
White pepper
Salt
Ground nutmeg
Thyme
Bay Leaf Clove (optional)
Pepper corns (optional)
Preperation:
White Roux A roux is prepared by cooking a fat and
flour. For this recipe, butter works best. The standard proportion of
fat to flour is one to one by weight. The finished slop should be moist
but not greasy.
1) Melt the butter
in a pan over moderate to low heat. Skim the fatty solids from the butter
(to clarify it).
2) Add the flour at
once and stir until smooth (over a low heat).
3) If necessary, add
a small amount of flour to achieve the proper consistency. White roux
(which this is) should be barely colored, or chalky.
4) Stir constantly
over low heat for five to eight minutes.
5) Let the roux cool.
The Onion
(Enough to make a man cry!)
Sweat the half of the minced white onion in a small amount of butter until
the onion is translucent. Remove the solid chunks of onion from the butter.
(Or, as an alternate method, cook these in the sauce. Once the sauce is
complete, you will need to strain it though a double thickness of cheesecloth.
This makes the sauce much more onion-y).
The Milk
1) Add the
milk, thyme, and the other whole half of the onion studded with a piece
of bay leave and clove (this is called an oignon pique; remove this at
any time to adjust seasoning).
2) Bring to a low simmer.
Making Slop
(When worlds collide.
) Be sure the roux and milk are different temperatures. This helps to
prevent lumps.
1) Add the milk gradually,
and whisk vigorously constantly to work out the lumps.
2) Gradually return
the sauce to a moderate heat, whisking occasionally, until it reaches
a full boil. Reduce the heat to a bare simmer (remove the oignon pique).
3) Skim as necessary
(to remove impurities). Stir frequently (this stuff scorches easily).
4) Simmer for a minimum
of 30 minutes.
5) Add a dash of grated
nutmeg to taste. Adjust seasoning with white pepper and salt.
Finishing the Sauce
You can reconstitute the sun dried tomatoes in the vodka, dice them up,
simmer, and use them as a garnish over the top of the sauce. You could
prepare the sun dried tomatoes in vodka, adding it to two ladle fulls
of the sauce, one tablespoon full of grated romano cheese, a shot of heavy
cream, and puree the mixture to make a complimentary sauce. You can add
truffle essence to the sauce, or truffle oil to the butter in the roux.
You can add portabello mushrooms directly to the sauce.
Note: This sauce goes well with wide
pasta or veal.
Finishing the Dish
Cook the ravoli and strain. Serve the ravoli and sauce. If possible, cut
some French bread in diagonal sections and warm. Be sure to have plenty
of beverage on hand, as this is a very hardy and filling dish.
"This page reminds me well of
Mr. Sullivan. At first glance, it's an impressive and elegant thing. Then,
as the surface drips away, and bits and pieces of his true self emerge,
one begins to know fear. For where else can the recipes for a Delicious
Creme Sauce, and Human Blood walk
side by side." - Azodnem
Salsa
You Will Need:
1/2 cup chopped scallions
(green part only)
1 cup chopped mild Vidalia, Maui, or other sweet onion
1/2-3/4 cup chopped cilantro
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
1/4 cup celery greens
(the leafy tops only)
1/2 green bell pepper
1 chipotle pepper (soaked for 30 minutes)
1 small jalepeño pepper
(seeds, veins, and stem removed)
2-3 cloves of garlic (peeled and minced)
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1/4 teaspoon sugar salt (to taste) several drops of green tabasco sauce
(to taste)
3-4 very ripe yellow tomatoes
Preperation:
In a blender or food processor, place
the jalepeño and chipotle and finely chop or nearly pure. Add the scallions,
onion, garlic, cilantro, celery greens, bell pepper, sugar, and salt to
taste (if desired) and very coarsely chop. Add the tomatoes, lime juice,
and vinegar and pulse a few times.
"I think the page is full now,
Jason. You can stop e-mailing me things." -
Azodnem
PAGAN
Teathered boughs of pussywillows Whisping whistfully through the autumnal
breeze
Here, she dances,
with her makeshift wand
This way and that, I see her trod
My eyes follow, filled with light
Laughter fills the evening sky
As the dragonflies conspire I gather kindling for the fire
THE CLOWN
He peeled off his face so she could see him smile.
It was funny, at first, but got old after a while.
"Yes, Jason. The poetry is very
nice, but no more - OK. " - Azodnem
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Who
is Jason Sullivan?
Jason Sullivan is like most other sentient carbon lifeforms.
He has bipedal movement, two arms with fine manipulators and opposable
thumbs, a centralized nervous and circulatory system.
If you're wondering
what makes him different; if you're wondering what makes him tick, well,
he himself can't really answer that. He doesn't really know. Perhaps
it's his intense death and separation anxiety, or a borderline bipolar
or hypochondria disorder, or perhaps it's the way he always asks those
bizarre questions. You know, those inane hypothetical questions that
have no bearing on reality...
Those questions are
like vestigial organs lost through evolution. They used to be daydreams,
but now they function as wellsprings for the weird within his mind.
If there's one defining
trait of who Jason Sullivan is, it's his weirdness. ...and with that,
welcome to his mind.
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Jason isn't crazy, but he
sure likes to feed on others' presumption that he may be. As such,
he's acquired an eclectic array of skills to maintain this masquerade.
The following is an article originally written for the Cthulhu
Live action role-playing game listserve.
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Cultists
draw with it...
Serial killers splatter it...
Vampires drink it...
Characters bleed it...
That's
right... Blood. |
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MAKING
BLOOD AT HOME
Standard
Blood
Your standard blood recipe is one
ounce of red food coloring to one pint of clear corn syrup, with a teaspoon
of yellow food coloring (or less of green) to adjust the color of the
blood. Dilute with up to one ounce of water, or for more "fluidity"
add one ounce of Photo-Flo, or one to three ounces of Palmolive Clear
dish soap. Adding Photo-Flo or clear dish soap makes the mixture
toxic. Add methyl paraben as a preservative. Usually washes
out of clothes and won't stain skin (except palms), but may attract insects
and thickens to an undesirable stickiness.
Alternate
"Quick" Bloods
- Water, flour, and red food coloring
can make decent blood when no other materials are available. Adjust
the ratios, but you'll need no more than a tablespoon of flour for each
cup of water. Can be heated for a smoother consistency.
- Red powdered nontoxic tempra paint
is cheap and useful for creating (literally) gallons of blood.
Adjust color with brown tempra paint. Go nuts with it. Very
useful for murder scenes (especially when blended with small amounts
of red food coloring and used to create bloody hand or foot prints.
Do-it-yourself
Blood Make-up
Of course, there are other types
of homemade blood you can make. Blood make-up can be made from baby
oil (or mineral oil), red grease lining color, and brown and blue lining
colors. In a metal bowl, place a tablespoon full of the red grease
lining color. Place over a pan of gently boiling water until the
color melts. Gradually add baby oil, stirring it into the liner
until you have a blood like consistency. Add brown or blue to achieve
the right color. Mind you, this fake blood stains very readily and
smudges easily, but is more translucent than the previous recipe.
Edible
Blood
For edible blood, I've toyed with
a number of recipes. The most common ingredients being clear corn
syrup/food coloring, adjusted with thickeners (flour, corn starch,
arrowroot, confectionery sugar, and/or gelatin), condensed milk, and/or
cocoa, chocolate syrup, raspberry jelly, or coffee concentrate for translucency
and proper color.
Blood
Punch
Grenadine, fruit punch concentrate,
strawberry daiquiri mix, Kohl Aid, and raspberry syrup can also make a
good "blood substitute" for drinking, but be careful with the combinations
(since it does tend to taste nasty drinking pure sugary syrups).
Adjust color with food coloring.
The
"Gene Simmons Special"
The most common "translucent" base
is clear corn syrup, but egg albumen (whites), put in a blender (with
a small bit of the yolk, with the shell), mixed with red food coloring
gives you a protein rich (not necessarily appetizing) blood recipe.
This is rumored to be what Gene Simmons of KISS fame uses as stage blood
during performances.
Look At All The Pretty Colors
When making blood, it's always good
to have a color reference around. Go to a local paint store, prick
your finger, and match the color of your blood to the paint color keys.
Take one home and use that as your reference.
You can get an excellent translucent
color from bakery supply shops for icing (I saw a small jar of this item
in a local party store, "Party City," and picked one up quickly).
There is also red food coloring in gel form, which makes it less messy.
These are useful for both edible and non-edible blood recipes.
BLOOD
TYPES ABROAD
Liquid
Blood
Liquid blood is the most common
type you'll find. In magic shops, they'll try to sell you a recipe
similar to the standard blood recipe (perhaps with a minty fresh taste),
or a tooth paste like substitute for blood. Avoid these types.
If you wish to purchase liquid blood, go for the professional variety.
Most professional bloods have a specific chemistry suitable for film and
television so they look "right" when developed. Professional bloods
are usually washable, but some may have a tendency to run when placed
in wounds, or dry when left on the skin.
A
& B Blood
This is worth mentioning simply
because of it's usefulness in Live Action Role Playing. I refer
to this as "A & B Blood" because it has two parts. An "A" part
you paint on your skin, which is clear. When you make the "B" part
come in contact with the "A" part, they mix, making instant blood appear.
This is also referred to as "Magic Blood," and is both hard to come by
and expensive ($30.00 for two bottles, each one ounce).
Scurf
Blood
Scurf blood is made from liquid
latex. It is red in color, and can be applied to the skin where
there are "picked at" wounds.
Chunks-O-Flesh
"Chunks-O-Flesh," as Tom Savini
calls it, are a type of Scurf Blood, but are pre-prepared as opposed to
painted on. Chunks-O-Flesh are made with liquid latex, pigmented
red, which is then painted on a flat smooth surface, like glass, dried
with a hair drier, and then rubbed until holes appear and the latex bunches
up into a web like structure, and stretches and tears like human tissue.
Technically, this isn't blood, but rather a substance that assists in
creating the illusion of skin. As you pull a chunk out of or away
from something, so goes this long stringy web-membrane of skin.
The type of "scurf" has also been used on the eggs in "Alien" and membranes
on all sorts of creatures in science fiction/horror movies monsters and
props. It's so simple, and yet so very effective.
Tea,
Anyone?
By using Red Zinger tea leaves,
you can make fairly realistic puncture wounds. Lay down the tea
leaves on the skin. Moisten with latex. Since the tea has natural
red and purple pigments in it, it soaks into the latex, giving you a highly
realistic and nasty looking "puncture wound" that simply needs to be blended
around the edges. Technically, this isn't blood either, but it was
worth mentioning.
Plastic
Blood
(Tuplast)
Tuplast is a professional grade
"skin plastic" that dries quick and is easy to apply. It sticks
well to skin, comes in both red and clear varieties. Similar to
the collodian I described, but lays on the skin rather than contracting
it. The red blood variety works well in all wounds, since it sets
and stays as opposed to flowing.
Powder
Blood
Professional powdered blood comes
in large tubs. While I have never personally used this product,
it is the way to go when you need buckets of blood. This is (assumablly)
very similar to the Tempra paint I described above, with the exception
that is probably does not dry out as quickly. You can premix this,
or scatter the powder and wet. For gushing blood, use blood tubing
and a rectal syringe. For mist use a pesticide sprayer (unused previously
for pesticides, of course), or a pump water spray atomizer.
Jelly
Blood
Jelly Blood is used as a wound
filler. When you need wet blood that isn't runny for wounds,
large areas of skin, or for matting down hair, jelly blood is the stuff
you want to use, having a consistency thicker than most hair gels.
Wound
Filler
You can make your own wound fillers.
Depending on the type of wound, thicken liquid blood with flour or molasses
and add fine breadcrumbs, crushed cereal, non-instant coffee, or gelatin
to act as a binding agent. You can pre-make wound filler out of
thick black syrup, or (if pressed for time) make wound filler out of thick
raspberry syrup/jam.
Other types of wound filler I use
are water based lubricating jelly (KY Jelly) and petroleum jelly (Vaseline)
mixed with the appropriate pigmentation, which is suitable for both surface
wounds and for matting down hair. If you feel odd putting such stuff
in your hair, mix red food coloring with the thickest hold hair gel you
can find.
Tooth
Blood
"Tooth Blood" is just colored tooth
enamel. Tooth Enamel comes in many colors: black, gold, white, yellow,
and brown. These shades are useful for establishing some form of
"tooth make-up" when tooth appliances aren't an option. Tooth blood
can be used on the tooth itself, or on the gums.
Eye
Blood
Can't afford expensive scleral contact
lenses? Want to really freak your players out? Well, look
no further than Eye Blood. These eye drops come in many colors:
blue, green, yellow, black, and (of course) red. The color is squeezed
into your eye via a medicine dropper, which turns the whites of your eyes
scarlet (or blue, or black, etc.). It only lasts for a few minutes,
and cannot be used with contact lenses.
Blood
Capsules
Blood capsules are placed in the
mouth. There are two varieties I know of. One is filled with
powdered blood. This variety often becomes too diluted by saliva
and foams after it is bitten down on. It's best placed in the mouth,
softened by saliva under the tongue, and then bitten and allowed to only
briefly mix with the saliva surrounding the area extremely close to the
mouth. The second type is a sealed capsule, like a vitamin gel capsule,
and is often filled with a high grade oil based blood. I was lucky
to come across the second variety, but only once as a gift from my girlfriend
at the time. The quality of this blood rivaled any other type of
fake blood of any type I've seen to this day!
Make
Your Own Blood Capsules
Vitamin shops and health food stores
sell gelatin capsules of varying sizes (all the way up to some really
ridiculous sizes at a local Vitamin Shoppe). Fill these capsules
with Kool Aid or food coloring.
Another alternative would be to
use Alka Seltzer broken into small pieces for a stark mad raving foaming
at the mouth psychotic (if you can get past the taste).
Mask
Blood
Mask blood is a polymer based blood
that is not suitable for use on the skin. Rather, it is meant for
latex masks, and dries in shiny wet looking drips. Drool, pus, and
"alien blood" are also available. This is useful for a variety of
props.
USING
BLOOD
Slit
Throat (Basic)
This is a simple make up.
Using a small brush and scurf blood (or liquid latex), paint a strip of
skin along the neck. Tap with finger immediately after to rough
up the area. Crease, fold and pinch skin along this strip, holding
it for a minute or so. The latex adheres to itself, pulling your
skin in such a way that it looks like a wound. Paint edges with
liquid latex, building up the lips of the wound in the center until the
desired depth is achieved (tear excess edges slightly, if necessary, or
adhere extra chunks-o-flesh). Cover edges of latex in camouflage
make up. Paint the inside of the wound with red and brown greasepaint.
Paint the edges pink. Stipple the edges of the wound with bruise purple
or redness. Powder the outer part of the wound with translucent
powder. Use jell blood or wound filler in the wound (coffee granules
work well). When the wound is to be presented to the players for
a scene, add congealed and flowing blood. Be careful not to add
too much blood, or the detail of the wound will be lost.
Blood
Packets
Blood packets are filled with a
liquid blood. They can be both small and large, and are extremely
useful in Live Action Role-Playing. Commonly, they are taped under
clothes or hidden under make up appliances. Blood packets can be
made from condoms, zip lock sandwich bags, colostomy bags, etc.
Disposable bags can be "lined" with a tear away strip (made of monofilament),
while larger bags taped to the body often need to be uncorked. This
a more mobile alternative to blood tubing.
Squeeze
Ball
For hand held weaponry is a squeeze
ball (which can be found in most pharmacies as a baby ear syringe).
Fill the bulb with fake blood, hide it in your palm. If you are
using something small (like a dulled hand held
razor or fake knife), you simply
squeeze the bulb and out gushes the blood along the blade. If you
are using a prop knife or sword, attach aquarium tubing along the side
of the blade that faces away from the players with tape, running it to
the squeeze ball. Use in the same manner.
Sponge
Blood
Small sponges can be filled with
fake blood and "palmed" for use later. This is especially effective
if a player or Keeper wants to have the blood appear if the character
clutches his arm or eye, for example. Most magic shops sell sponge
balls that are highly absorbent and work well for this purpose.
Bloody Dreams,
Jason Sullivan
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